Walkling memorial trust helps fund community groups in 2018

PORT ANGELES — The Ben and Myrtle Walkling Memorial Trust has announced that it will award more than $20,000 in community grants in 2018.

Myrtle Walkling, who died in 1992, created this trust in her will and funded it with more than $1 million. It was her intent that the income from the trust be used for charitable and civic projects that otherwise might not happen.